DITES – Digital Technologies and Social Services

Interdisciplinary Research Center
TH Köln

Campus Südstadt
Sachsenring 2-4
50677 Cologne
T: +49 221-8275-3170
E: dites@th-koeln.de

Theses, term papers & doctorate

We offer you the opportunity to write your paper in cooperation with our members.
Contact us!

Director Research Center

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Medienforschung und Medienpädagogik (IMM)

  • Campus Südstadt
    Ubierring 48
    50678 Köln
  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334

Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Medienforschung und Medienpädagogik (IMM)

  • Technische Hochschule Köln
    Sachsenring 2-4
    50677 Köln
  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170

DITES | Members of the Research Centre

We investigate the phenomena of digitalization, informatization and mediatization in the diverse fields of social services, develop scenarios for a realistic application of digital technologies and contribute newly gained knowledge, but also questions and challenges to the scientific, political and public discourse.

Head of department

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Main research focus: Participatory technology design, digital technologies in media education and social work, e-learning concepts, technology assessment from a media education perspective

  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334


Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Research areas: hybrid value creation (initiation, design and implementation of cross-corporate innovation projects); behavioural change in service design systems via design; taxonomies of co-creation

  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170


Members

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bente

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bente

Research areas: software and enterprise architectures for complex, socio-technical systems, the field of e-Government; slim and agile architecture management for such systems; collaborative approaches

  • Room 1708
  • Phone: +49 2261-8196-6367
Prof. Dr. Babette Brinkmann

Prof. Dr. Babette Brinkmann

Research areas: holistic management and new working environment
Areas of teaching: organizational and group psychology

  • Room 335
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3475


Prof. Dr. Amelie Duckwitz

Prof. Dr. Amelie Duckwitz

Research areas: Social Media, User Experience and Transcultural Communication

  • Room B5.425
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3873
Prof. Dr. Carmen Kaminsky

Prof. Dr. Carmen Kaminsky

Research areas: applied ethics; normative theories of social work
Areas of teaching: ethics; social philosophy; science of social work

  • Room 143
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3605


Prof. Dr. Christian Kohls

Prof. Dr. Christian Kohls

Research areas: socio-technical design patterns (e-learning, educational patterns etc.), community design and participatory design methods; application development for group innovation processes

  • Room 1.117
  • Phone: +49 2261-8196-6353
Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Lindner

Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Lindner

Research areas: system-theoretical analysis of human factors in business processes (cybernetics, business analytics, human resources und process-simulation to measure intangible values, etc.)

  • Room 104
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3427


Prof. Dr. Petra Werner

Prof. Dr. Petra Werner

Research areas: editorial concepts and strategies for digital media; usability; media usage and reception

  • Room 430
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3373
Prof. Dr. Ivonne Preusser

Prof. Dr. Ivonne Preusser

Research areas: Customer emotions & employee engagement, customer-centered corporate management, leadership, corporate culture / customer climate

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3850


Dr. Philip Roth

Dr. Philip Roth

Research areas: Organization, digitalization & inequality research, transformation of collaboration, formation & impact of relationship networks, methods of empirical social research

  • Room 211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5432


Prof. Birgit Mager

Research areas: hybrid value creation (initiation, design and implementation of cross-corporate innovation projects); behavioural change in service design systems via design; taxonomies of co-creation

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3220

Dan Zhu



Associated Members


Portraitfoto

Baptiste Egelhaaf M.A.

Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences: Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
Bielefeld University: Faculty of Social Sciences

  • Phone: +49 211-4351-3430
Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann

Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann

  • Room A1.50
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3446


Prof. Dr. jur. Claus Richter

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: Professor of law with a focus on civil law, in particular family law and child and youth welfare law

  • Room Haus 5 | Raum 008
  • Phone: +49 331580-4149

Prof. Dr. phil. Udo Seelmeyer

University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld: Faculty of Social Work, Department of Social Work Science

  • Room B 231
  • Phone: +49 521-106-70542


Dr. Scarlett La Shea Schaffrath (ehem. Siebert)

VDI/VDE-IT GmbH | Wissenschaftliche Beraterin



DITES – Digital Technologies and Social Services

Interdisciplinary Research Center
TH Köln

Campus Südstadt
Sachsenring 2-4
50677 Cologne
T: +49 221-8275-3170
E: dites@th-koeln.de

Theses, term papers & doctorate

We offer you the opportunity to write your paper in cooperation with our members.
Contact us!

Director Research Center

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Medienforschung und Medienpädagogik (IMM)

  • Campus Südstadt
    Ubierring 48
    50678 Köln
  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334

Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Medienforschung und Medienpädagogik (IMM)

  • Technische Hochschule Köln
    Sachsenring 2-4
    50677 Köln
  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170


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